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| Important things to Know about
Roulette Variations |
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Roulette is a beautifully simple game that is hard to improve on but casino operators keep
trying. Its wheel and table layout are the perfection of game design and intuitively understood by people around the world, lending itself to be playable by
anyone without having to speak any particular langauge. Simple rules that are basically the same all over the world is part of the attraction to punters and to
casinos and is what makes it the most popular casino table game.
The are however reasons why casinos, and therefore game makers, come up with variations
with different formats or rules and that is to lure more people to bet more often and heavier than they otherwise would. The now infamous roulette machines
invented in the late 1990s were widely described as the
crack cocaine of gambling and for twenty years
provided a large part of high street bookmaker revenue due to the their intoxicating mixture fast paced repitition and complete lack of natural break triggers.
These caused such an outcry in the UK that the government stepped in and reduced the maximum bet from £100 to just £2. They remain in thousands of
bookmaker shops and are standard roulette games just entirely electronic. |
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French Roulette
French roulette is standard
British roulette dealt more slowly in the real world and without coloured chips. Everyone places cash chips, or jetons, and the dealer remembers each players
bets. Its sedate roulette for the connoisseur. It can be played faster online. Some differences are in the names. The table layout looks the same but outside
bets are in French. Odd/Even are Impair/Pair, Low/High are Manque/Passe although Red/Black are normally colours as in the standard game. First Dozen is shown
as P12 (premiere douzaine), Second Doxen as M12 (moyenne douzaine) and the Third Dozen as D12 (derniere douzaine).
Along with American Roulette which is
just normal roulette with an extra number, double zero, which doubles the edge against the player,these are real world alternatives that you will encounter
around the world's real casinos. The online casino world presents more options and with multiple game producers being used by most casino operators you will be
given the choice of newer creations, as you are when visiting the extensive collection at WAGMI Live Roulette which is as contempory as they get.
Speed Roulette
As simple as the name suggests it is fast. Its regular roulette with all the same rules but after you have been
paid from the last spin the ball is spun again immediately and you have seconds to place your bet. Each round takes approximitely 25 seconds.
Lightning Roulette
This game changes some of the rules. Once the ball has stoppped and a number has been selected as
the winning number a second RNG selction is made and from 2-5 numbers are selcted as lucky numbers with a new bet multiplier of either 50x, 100x, 200x, 300x,
400x or 500x your bet. If you are on the lucky number then your payout will be boosted accordingly. The downside to this extra feature is that normal payout
table has been changed. Straight-up payout is now 30-1 for this game to compensate for the bonuses. This give the house an edge of 2.9%.
Gold Bar Roulette
The twist here is that whenever you win a bet that is placed on a single number you will
get between 1 nad 20 gold bars, randomly selected. Each gold has a cash value equal to the stake you placed on the winning number. The gold bars can then be
used to bet on single numbers and pay 88 times their value if they win.
The downside to this is that the single number payout is now down to 19-1! The
gold bars are nothing more than an extra random payout and they are bet credits which force you to bet the entire value of a gold bar when you use them (If you
don't use them in 180 days they become valueless).
Power Up Roulette
On each spin of the
wheel an RNG randomly selects between 3 and 5 numbers to become Power Up numbers along with a multiplier payout for each number. If the winning number is a
Power Up number then those with a bet on it get paid at the new multiplier which is up to 500x. Also existing straight-up bets qualify for a Power Up bonus
spin where the Power Up number multiplies are increased. If the new winning number is one of the Power Up numbers then payouts are made and another bonus spin
begins. This can happen up to five times with a maximum multiplier on the 5th spin of 8,000x. |
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All normal payouts are the same as regular roulette except a straight-up bet which has had its payout
reduced from 35-1 to 24-1. The lure of the big payouts is obvious but what it is really doing is tempting players to carpet bomb the layout in order to collect
one of the really big multipliers. Although the actual RTP (return to player) is 97.3%, the same as regular roulette, it encourages them to play in a way that
loses a lot of money quickly unless you hit a big payout early on.
Conclusion
Regular
roulette with European rules is a fair game with a smalll enough advantage to the house to give players a chance to win. Play short spells with moderate
agression and you will have some good sessions and enjoyable times. Stop when you reach your loss limit which you must set before you play. |
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